Re: [tied] CANIS

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 4520
Date: 2000-10-27

Maybe there was a crossing of *cuo: "dog" and *canis "puppy", giving Latin canis or cane:s.
It'd be interesting to know  Osco-Umbrian words for "dog"
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] CANIS

The Slavic word is in fact s^c^enU < *sken-o-s, or diminutive s^c^ene~ (~ = nasalisation) < *sken-ent.
 
I'm sceptical of relating canis to *kuon- at all; the similarity looks superficial when balanced against the differences (non-matching vocalism, a different stem type, no trace of a labial or labialised segment in Latin). BTW, I'd expect someting like Nom.sg. *cuo: (disyllabic), Gen. *cunis.
 
Piotr
 
 
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Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 1:12 AM
Subject: [tied] CANIS

Latin Canis is surely linked to PIE *kwon, but there's an anomaly; the "correct" form must have been
Nom. *co: Gen. *cunis; or by analogy *co:, *co:nis; or even *co:n-es
 
But Canis, Canes must have an influence of root *ken- "young" cf. Greek kainos, Sansk. kani:na- Lat re-cen-t-, like
Welsh cenau "puppy" and Slavic s^tene
 
Joao SL
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